Instructor
5th January 2006 21:05 UTC

TextReplace plugin
Features:
- Fast replacement in text file
- Case sensitive/insensitive replacement
- Supports strings and pointers to the buffer
- If no changes possible, output file will be untouched
- Checks before replacement, if input file is a binary file

Rough estimate perfomance info:
50 Mb text file with 4.000.000 strings to replace processed
with option "/S=1" 4 sec, with option "/S=0" 37 sec


"TextReplace" plugin v1.0

Removed attachment 18 July 2006 - Afrow UK. See last post for latest version.

zeeh3
6th January 2006 10:29 UTC

Great and useful plugin, thanks a lot Instructor :)

Instructor
6th January 2006 11:00 UTC

You are welcome :)

Instructor
14th January 2006 09:45 UTC

New: "FindInFile" only search in file without replacements
New: "ReplaceInFile" options:
    /AI=[1|0] -Copy attributes from the InputFile to OutputFile or not
    /AO=[0|1] -Change OutputFile attributes to normal before writting or not


"TextReplace" plugin v1.1

whaccybanany
26th January 2006 10:55 UTC

Thanks for the great plugin Instructor!

I'm a bit confused to what the options are.

If AI is true, does that mean read/write/execute/other attributes of the InputFile will be kept the same when written out?

If AO is true, does it mean change attributes to some standard?

Instructor
26th January 2006 11:24 UTC

If AI is true, does that mean read/write/execute/other attributes of the InputFile will be kept the same when written out?

If AO is true, does it mean change attributes to some standard?

whaccybanany
26th January 2006 11:56 UTC

Thanks for the quick reply.

That clears things up!

NHOCSUNG
28th January 2006 16:14 UTC

Hi Instructor can i get the source code please

I'm taking C++ now. Actually this is first course, so i need something to practice, you know.

Instructor
28th January 2006 17:09 UTC

Hi Instructor can i get the source code please

NHOCSUNG
28th January 2006 20:20 UTC

I didn't see it before....

Instructor
27th May 2006 11:53 UTC

Fixed: Now plugin doesn't read all file if it is binary.
Updated: "StrFunc.h" to v1.7
Updated: "ConvFunc.h" to v1.7

Update from previous versions:
         - Insert line in script:
            !include "TextReplace.nsh"
         - Replace:
            textreplace::FindInFile -> ${textreplace::FindInFile} ...
         - Replace:
            .r0 -> $0, .r1 -> $1 ... .R0 -> $R0, .R1 -> $R1 ...

"TextReplace" plugin v1.2

zeeh3
30th June 2006 20:32 UTC

Instructor, there is a bug in the plugin that makes files bigger than 128 bytes readonly|hidden|system|archive|temporary|offline|not_content_indexed.

Instructor
1st July 2006 05:13 UTC

Don't understand. If file size equal to 128 then after processing it attributes changed to readonly|hidden|system|archive|temporary|offline|not_content_indexed? And what plugin parameters you use?

zeeh3
1st July 2006 10:55 UTC

Yes, I am just using TextReplaceTest.nsi that comes with the plugin. Attached are the input.txt and output.txt files and the exe.

Instructor
1st July 2006 12:53 UTC

Fixed: Buffer overflow (thanks zeeh3)


"TextReplace" plugin v1.3

Instructor
14th July 2006 05:57 UTC

Fixed: crash when using long string (> 1024) with 8192 special build (thanks zeeh3)


"TextReplace" plugin v1.4

Instructor
14th July 2006 16:56 UTC

Forgot to remove debug MessageBox in release.


"TextReplace" plugin v1.4

tinjaw
17th October 2006 19:10 UTC

Thank you very much. You plugin just saved me much valuable time.

Instructor
29th October 2006 00:12 UTC

Changed: algorithm optimized - replacement speed increased.


"TextReplace" plugin v1.5

Chunkster
8th April 2008 17:59 UTC

Replace one line with two lines
I am trying to replace one line of a text file with two lines, using TextReplace. The arrangement of info in the file looks something like this -


Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4

I am searching for "Line 3" and want to replace it with

Line 3a
Line 3b

for a final file arrangement that looks like -

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3a
Line 3b
Line 4

Here is the actual TextReplace line

${textreplace::ReplaceInFile} "$PROGRAMFILES\OpenOffice.org 2.4\share\dict\ooo\dictionary.lst" "$PROGRAMFILES\OpenOffice.org 2.4\share\dict\ooo\dictionary.lst" "THES en US th_en_US_v2" "THES en US th_en_US_v2 \r DICT en US en_US_OpenMedSpel \r" "/S=1" $0

This of course, does not produce the desired output. It looks like this

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3a \r Line 3b \r
Line 4

Any help with this problem would be appreciated. Thanks.

Instructor
9th April 2008 07:44 UTC

\r -> $\r$\n

nduboc
12th May 2009 15:17 UTC

Hi,

What license the TextReplace v1.5 plugin is distributed under ? I can't find any license notice in the zip file or
the home page (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/TextReplace_plugin).

Thanks.

Instructor
12th May 2009 16:59 UTC

nduboc
NSIS license.

nduboc
13th May 2009 15:11 UTC

Originally posted by Instructor
nduboc
NSIS license.

Yathosho
13th October 2011 13:23 UTC

saw your update of the locate plugin, so i was wondering if there are plans for a unicode version of textreplace

threexk
21st January 2012 08:17 UTC

I get "Invalid command: ${textreplace::ReplaceInFile}" when trying to call TextReplace commands. The only way I could get it to work was to use "TextReplace::_ReplaceInFile", but you're probably not supposed to call the commands like that. What is the proper way to call TextReplace commands?

threexk
21st January 2012 09:02 UTC

Originally posted by threexk
I get "Invalid command: ${textreplace::ReplaceInFile}" when trying to call TextReplace commands. The only way I could get it to work was to use "TextReplace::_ReplaceInFile", but you're probably not supposed to call the commands like that. What is the proper way to call TextReplace commands?